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Mar 25, 2015 4:48 PM CST
Name: Melissa
Memphis, TN (Zone 8a)
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ctcarol said:Melissa, could you elaborate on the "dipping" process? Confused


Well, I don't have any systemic fungicide at the moment (shopping trip this weekend) so I had to go with a topical treatment.

The easiest way to do it with the least amount of waste was to fill up my wheelbarrow with 10 gallons of water with 10 tbsp of Daconil.

Then I soaked each orchid all the way bottom to top (dipped) in the solution. The ones that had evidence that I wanted to keep got to stay in the solution for several minutes.

I did 25 in the first dip and then threw out the water and did a new batch for the next 25. I have a bunch more to do but it is not as bad as I thought. I don't see any evidence on the rare plants (lucky). Thumbs up

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